Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Watch Immigration Lawyers Relentlessly Fight to Reunite Families in MSNBC’s ‘Guerilla Habeas'(Exclusive Video)
thewrap.comMSNBC Film’s “Guerilla Habeas” pulls back the curtain on the intricacies of the broken U.S. immigration system by revealing how hard immigration lawyers must fight to reunite immigrant families with their children and loved ones.In an exclusive clip shared with TheWrap, lawyers Sarah Gillman and Gregory Copeland navigate an almost impossible circumstance as they desperately work to halt the deportation of Baba Sillah and reunify him with his family.
When the attorneys hear that Sillah is about to be deported from New York’s JFK airport, Gillman and Copeland immediately hustle to file a petition to block his deportation — despite being a three hour drive away in a snowstorm.
While the lawyers were certain they wouldn’t make it to JFK before the flight was scheduled to depart, they determined they would stretch the rules ever so slightly to file their petition online before calling the judge and demanding a hearing. “Sarah is driving down the highway [in the snowstorm],” Copeland recalls in the clip, adding that he used his phone as a hotspot as the group whizzed down the highway. “I start writing this thing at 5, I file it at 6:10, I call the court — my phone’s not working.”After the lawyers pulled up at a gas station in the middle of nowhere and called into the chambers, the judge agrees to hold a hearing at 7:20 — 45 minutes before the plane is slated to take off.“I’m out of my mind,” Sillah’s wife Mamou Drame recounted of this tense period.While the attorneys made their case that Sillah should be granted the right to stay due to other legal avenues available to his immigration case, Sillah boards the place alongside four I.C.E.
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